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most citedHot Jupiters are Destroyed by Tides While Their Host Stars are on the Main Sequence

114 citations · 196 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2024★ 19 cited

Resonant and Ultra-short-period Planet Systems are at Opposite Ends of the Exoplanet Age Distribution

Stephen P. Schmidt, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Jacob H. Hamer

Exoplanet systems are thought to evolve on secular timescales over billions of years. This evolution is impossible to directly observe on human timescales in most individual system…

astro-ph.EP2023

Kepler-discovered Multiple-planet Systems Near Period Ratios Suggestive of Mean-motion Resonances Are Young

Jacob H. Hamer, Kevin C. Schlaufman

Before the launch of the Kepler Space Telescope, models of low-mass planet formation predicted that convergent Type I migration would often produce systems of low-mass planets in l…

astro-ph.EP2022

Evidence for the Late Arrival of Hot Jupiters in Systems with High Host-star Obliquities

Jacob H. Hamer, Kevin C. Schlaufman

It has been shown that hot Jupiters systems with massive, hot stellar primaries exhibit a wide range of stellar obliquities. On the other hand, hot Jupiter systems with low-mass, c…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 3 cited

Coadded Spectroscopic Stellar Parameters and Abundances from the LAMOST Low Resolution Survey

Jacob H. Hamer

I combine duplicate spectroscopic stellar parameter estimates in the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Data Release 6 Low Resolution Spectral Surve…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 36 cited

Ultra-short-period Planets are Stable Against Tidal Inspiral

Jacob H. Hamer, Kevin C. Schlaufman

It has been unambiguously shown in both individual systems and at the population level that hot Jupiters experience tidal inspiral before the end of their host stars' main sequence…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 24 cited

Very wide companion fraction from Gaia DR2: a weak or no enhancement for hot jupiter hosts, and a strong enhancement for contact binaries

Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Jacob H. Hamer, Nadia L. Zakamska +1

There is an ongoing debate on whether hot jupiter hosts are more likely to be found in wide binaries with separations of AU. In this paper, we search for comoving, ve…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 114 cited

Hot Jupiters are Destroyed by Tides While Their Host Stars are on the Main Sequence

Jacob H. Hamer, Kevin C. Schlaufman

While cooler giant planets are often observed with non-zero eccentricities, the short-period circular orbits of hot Jupiters suggest that they lose orbital energy and angular momen…